akrito

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by akrito 5y ago
It's because many more people are vaccinated. Assume 100,000 people are vaccinated and 10,000 aren't. If the infection rate in vaccinated population is 5%, and in the unvaccinated population is 50%, then out of 10,000 infected peo
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by akrito 7y ago
It's a gated community - if you place the Streetview pointer on Lake Worth Rd, you can even see the gates.
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by akrito 14y ago
Just like bash.
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by akrito 15y ago
zavulon was joking. It's an old Slashdot meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture
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by akrito 16y ago
Since they're both AOL properties, I bet something's wonky with their reverse proxy/load balancer.
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by akrito 16y ago
He claims to have written much of the firmware in the TRS-80 Model 100, released in 1983: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm...
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by akrito 16y ago
I'm fine with this being reposted every month or so. In fact, I wouldn't mind if it were pinned to the top of the page.
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by akrito 17y ago
> If I'm not allowed to make a derivative of the LICENSE DOCUMENT, how am I able to create a parody interpretation? I think you've got it right there. A cursory search of Wikipedia shows parodies may fall under fair use, never mind the
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by akrito 17y ago
> I tried it in Emacs. Your definition of correct does not agree with mine. Yes it does. In Emacs, with a proportional font, if I'm on the 10th character of a line and press "up", I do not necessarily move to the 10th character of the
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by akrito 17y ago
Scintilla-based editors, GTKsourceview-based editors (I just tried with Scite and Gedit) and Emacs all correctly position the cursor when using the arrow keys and proportional fonts. As for lining up similar constructs, I mostly code in Pyt
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by akrito 17y ago
When I hit "Return", it duplicates the current line's leading whitespace on the next line. That will still work perfectly with a proportional font. When I hit "cursor-down", most text editors that allow proportional fonts know how to put th
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by akrito 17y ago
I really tried to use proportional fonts for coding, but the kicker for me was selecting text with the mouse (or trackpad). I find it easier to position the pointer when all the letters are the same width. "i"s and "l"s are especially trick
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by akrito 17y ago
If only. He's like this all the time. And he tied scarves around his monitor stand. And he brought in a fog machine.
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by akrito 18y ago
So, if the number modulo 13 is 0, a taunt, "Maybe you could try drawing something," shows up. Any other easter eggs?